Ralph Sall Explained

Ralph Sall
Background:non_performing_personnel
Birth Date:23 August 1963
Occupation:Record producer, music supervisor, composer, songwriter
Label:Bulletproof

Ralph Sall is an American record producer, music supervisor, composer, songwriter and screenwriter. He is the president of Bulletproof Entertainment, a company involved in several facets of the entertainment industry, including film, television, comic books and graphic novels, music, internet and live theatre.

Personal life

Sall is a Summa Cum Laude Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University. A native of Miami, he currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Lisa and their three young children.[1]

Career

As a record producer, Sall has produced tracks with Paul McCartney, The Ramones, Stone Temple Pilots, Jewel, Sugar Ray, Sublime, Smash Mouth, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, Jane’s Addiction and Creed. As a songwriter, Sall has written tracks for Liz Phair, Jewel, George Clinton and Sugar Ray.

Tracks by his group, All Too Much, have been featured in the romantic comedies The In-Laws (2003), Failure to Launch (2006) and License to Wed (2007).

Sall has written and produced original songs for films, including "Rollin’ with My Homies", co-written with Coolio, for Clueless (1995) and "Words to Me", with Sugar Ray, for Scooby-Doo (2002).

As composer and executive music producer on Andrew Fleming’s Hamlet 2 (2008), Sall wrote the majority of the music and performed the songs "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" and "You’re as Gay as the Day Is Long" under The Ralph Sall Experience. He previously collaborated with Fleming on the films Threesome (1994), The Craft (1996), Dick (1999) and Nancy Drew (2007). He scored The New Guy (2002) and Grind (2003), the latter of which he also wrote the screenplay.

Sall won the 1994 Razzie Award (Worst Original Song) for the song "Addams Family (Whoomp!)" from Addams Family Values. He shared the award with co-writers Stephen Gibson and Cecil Glenn.[2]

Other ventures

Sall’s Interstellar Force, a dance music project, charted a Billboard hit with their cover of the Star Wars theme.

Sall produced the tribute album Deadicated, featuring the songs of the Grateful Dead. He went on to create the triple-platinum selling , and the Gold-certified , as well as the Paul McCartney tribute The Art of McCartney, released in November 2014.

Filmography

Music supervisor

YearTitleNotes
1990Downtown
Tremors
1992Encino Man
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1993Addams Family Values
1994Threesome
PCU
Speed
1995Billy Madison
1996Bio-Dome
The Craft
1997Switchback
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1998The Replacement Killers
Can't Hardly Wait
199910 Things I Hate About You
Dick
Three Kings
2000Grosse PointeTV series
2001Happy Campers
2002Paranormal GirlTV movie
Clockstoppers
The New GuyAlso composer
Scooby-Doo
2003The In-Laws
GrindAlso composer
2004Mean Girls
Garfield
2005Sahara
Mad Hot Ballroom
King's Ransom
Bad News Bears
The Protector
WeedsTV series
Head Cases
Kitchen Confidential
First Descent
2006Last Holiday
Failure to Launch
Slither
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
Clerks II
Barnyard
How to Eat Fried Worms
Jackass Number Two
Let's Go to Prison
Charlotte's Web
2007Because I Said So
Sex and Death 101
Nancy DrewAlso composer
The Hills Have Eyes II
Arctic Tale
License to Wed
Shoot 'Em Up
2008Hamlet 2Also composer and songwriter
2009Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
TV series; season 9
2019Wonder Park

Discography

Compilations

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Ralph Sall . Bulletproofrecords.com . 2013-04-02.
  2. Web site: Addams Family Values Awards. IMDb.com. 2013-04-02.